The skill of disconnecting your eyes from the current target at the precise moment you fire your last intended shot and redirecting them to the next target before the gun follows. Visual disconnection is what makes fast transitions possible -- the eyes lead the gun, not the other way around. The cue to disconnect is the last trigger break on the current target. You should NOT see the sight return on a target you are done shooting.
On the last intended shot for a target, the shooter's eyes leave the target at the moment of the last sight lift (the gun rising in recoil). The eyes jump to a small, specific spot on the next target via a saccadic jump -- not a smooth tracking movement. The gun then follows the eyes to the new target automatically via the trained index/visual connection. The shooter does not see the sight return to the target they just finished. If they see the sight come back down onto a target they don't intend to shoot again, they disconnected too late.
The process feels effortless when done correctly. The eyes look at the next spot, and the gun arrives there as if by magic -- "like a mouse pointer appearing where you look." There is no muscling, shoving, or pushing the gun between targets. The upper body stays relaxed, particularly the shoulders. Tension in the shoulders causes jerky, imprecise transitions.
This is fundamentally a visual skill, not a physical one. The gun moves because you look somewhere new, not because you physically drive it there.
Muscling the gun between targets -- tense shoulders, arm-driven push, physical effort -- creates the subjective experience of speed and intensity. But the timer shows the opposite: tense transitions are SLOWER than relaxed ones because the tension causes overshoot-and-correct oscillations, imprecise arrival, and a settling phase. The correct technique feels effortless, lazy, and "too easy" -- and IS the fastest.